Bldg. 410 13. NUMBER OF PAGES Bolling AFB DC 20332 106 .-14. MONITORING AGENCY NAME & AODRESS('lf different from Controlling Office) 1S. SECURITY CLASS. (of Chia report) UNCLASSIFIED ISO. OECL ASSI FICATION/ODOWN GRADING SCHEDULE 16. DISTRIBUTION STATEMENT (of thls Report) Approved for public release; distribution unlimited. 17. DISTRIBUTION STATEMENT (of the obstroct entered in Block 20. If different from Report) III. SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES'-It. KEY WORDS (Continue on reverse old* If necessary mid Identify by block number) 20. ABSTRACT (Continue an reverse side If necessary and identify by block number) * Finite field arithmetic may be efficiently applied for implementing signal processing architectures. The fundamental theoretical work in this area was done by Matluk and Gill (1). They showed how convolutions over a residue class ring, modulo an integer M, the situation for all implementations using a finite digital representation, may be separated into an equivalent system of serial and parallel sections. If the integer M has the prime factor expansion.